On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, David Griffiths <> wrote: > I reinstalled cygwin after a disk failure recently and one of my > scripts stopped working. The problem can be easily reproduced by > entering: > > $ cygpath -m boo/.. > cygpath: error converting "boo/.." - No such file or directory > > this is with version 1.7.24(0.269/5/3). On another machine with 1.7.17 > installed, the same command results in "./". > > I can workaround by using backslashes instead of forward slashes but > other people might find their scripts broken as well. > > Cheers, > > Dave >
I believe this behavior was changed in 1.7.22 See this thread for more information but basically it was changed to conform /.. path checking to posix standards. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00222.html Robert Pendell A perfect world is one of chaos. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
